Teams in global competition want to convert CO2 waste into products ranging from building materials to toothpaste.
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In 2014, researchers announced the successful engineering of a poplar plant "designed for deconstruction.” The finding caught the attention of the global scientific community.
University of Southampton scientists have redesigned the fundamental process of photosynthesis used to power valuable chemical reactions capable of being used to generate fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biofuels.
Although E. coli bacteria is most of the times considered as a bad bug, laboratory-adapted E. coli that do not harm human beings, at the same time can multiply fast, have been commonly used for various research purposes.
Sweetgum trees survive in a wide range of diverse conditions and have a fast growth rate similar to pine trees. They provide the type of fiber needed for specialty papers, and they have long been desired by paper and bioenergy producers.
Life on Earth depends in some way or the other on carbon fixation, which is the ability of algae, plants, and some bacteria to “pump” carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, add solar or other energy, and convert it into the sugars that are the required starting point crucial for life processes.
A group of scientists are working to generate electricity from an unusual source: damaged tomatoes, which are not fit to be sold at grocery stores. The pilot project involves a biological-based fuel cell, which utilizes waste tomatoes discarded during harvests in Florida.
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) was established 30 years ago by the USDA’s Farm Service Agency as part of an initiative to boost habitat for sensitive wildlife species, minimize soil erosion, and enhance the quality of water. Farmers receive rent from the program in exchange for land to be removed from crop production and planted with species that enhance the quality of the environment. The land, as well as its cover crop, would be left untouched for a period of 10 to 15 years.
ACS Applied Materials Interfaces recently published a study by University of Maryland scientists, who have discovered a new method for preparing batteries. This new preparation method starts with baking a leaf, and then adding sodium. The scientists used a carbonized oak leaf filled with sodium as a negative terminal or anode for the demonstration battery.
Raul Pineda Olmedo, a biology expert from the National University of Mexico (UNAM), developed a biofilter that uses microorganisms living in peanut shells to purify air pollutants such as solvents and methanol. Doctors Fermin Perez Guevara and Frédéric Thalasso Sire, from the Research Center of Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) in Mexico, were part of this experiment
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